The problem with the trailer is the lack of that "oh s***!" moment. There's nothing wrong with having a character focused trailer and unlike some believe, The G.A aren't ADD drones that need big explosions to get their interest, but you do need to have some kind of hook. Look at the trailers for movies like Gravity, Argo and Life of Pi for what i mean.

for fans of the franchise the trailer may be good or even great and its definitely great to see the old gang back. But if you want to break through that ceiling that X-films seem to have and garner a whole new generation of fans similar to what the MCU has done, these trailers definitely need more oomph. I'm sure the next trailer will so i'm not worried but this just seemed like a missed opportunity to me.

Perhaps for the die hards but those aren't the one's the trailer should be going after. Whoever in this thread said this trailer was preaching to the choir was spot on. That's exactly what they are doing. You know Star Trek tried running their franchise that way. They almost went extinct. X-Men should not follow suit.

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For you and I, yes. because we know what that means and we have a general idea of what this story is and where its going.

But to those random parents who take their kids to go see Catching Fire, that makes little to no sense to them if they don't have prior x men knowledge. And those are the people you need if you want to make $700 mill + at the box office.

Perhaps for the die hards but those aren't the one's the trailer should be going after. Whoever in this thread said this trailer was preaching to the choir was spot on. That's exactly what they are doing. You know Star Trek tried running their franchise that way. They almost went extinct. X-Men should not follow suit.

Agreed. The "we need you to hope again" only works as a hook if you are already invested in the characters. But Stewart's Xavier hasn't appeared onscreen in non-cameo form since 2006 and McAvoy's version of the same character didn't send box offices aflutter back in 2011.

Though Singer and Co. have plenty of time to recover, their teaser trailer looked unfinished in comparison to Marvel's release in the prior week. CA:TWS's "teaser" featured a screen legend voice over and three "wow" moments between the crashing helicarrier, the Falcon dog fight and the WS shield catch. Marvel could put this exact same trailer on films next year and be confident it will bring people into the cinemas on the opening weekend.

If Marvel can put together a sweet looking helicarrier crash 6 months before the CA:TWS release date, FOX has absolutely no excuse for not showing a Sentinel attack in their teaser.

But it would have been easy just to show a Sentinel head with the eyes lighting up as it was activated.

We didn't need to see sequences from the film, just a Sentinel head switching on would have been enough, or a Sentinel leg/foot crashing down.

It didn't need to be much. Either a robot head or a group of flying Sentinels off in the distance as Storm prepares her lightning attack. Anything to let potential customers know that something new and exciting was being added to the franchise.

Singer has a much more impressive track record than the Russos, Webb and Gunn, and DOFP may turn out to be the Citizen Kane of post-apocalyptic mutant hunting robot movies. But this one needed a bit more baking before it was ready.

1:ANnounce the film is coming
2:Show this combins cast from both X-Men trilogy and First Class
3:Setup this Is time travel story
4:Help set the tone for film

I'd say the only real point of the teaser is to make people go, wow I really want to see that. And not just the people who watch it on YouTube and are probably interested in X-Men to start with.

Plus, unless there's a "this is just a teaser folks, real trailer is coming soon" disclaimer at the front, this will look just like a real trailer to the people who have not been following the movie online. And this doesn't look like a trailer for an epic summer movie with a $250 million budget, it looks like what you'd show a bunch of fans at a convention.

The problem with the trailer is the lack of that "oh s***!" moment. There's nothing wrong with having a character focused trailer and unlike some believe, The G.A aren't ADD drones that need big explosions to get their interest, but you do need to have some kind of hook. Look at the trailers for movies like Gravity, Argo and Life of Pi for what i mean.

for fans of the franchise the trailer may be good or even great and its definitely great to see the old gang back. But if you want to break through that ceiling that X-films seem to have and garner a whole new generation of fans similar to what the MCU has done, these trailers definitely need more oomph. I'm sure the next trailer will so i'm not worried but this just seemed like a missed opportunity to me.

I like how some people apparently know that this won't get people excited. They are apparently experts on what the GA will be excited by. For all we know, this will excite the GA. Just because some hardcore fanboys are underwhelmed doesn't necessarily mean that your average moviegoer will be. People seem to forget that.

I like how some people apparently know that this won't get people excited. They are apparently experts on what the GA will be excited by. For all we know, this will excite the GA. Just because some hardcore fanboys are underwhelmed doesn't necessarily mean that your average moviegoer will be. People seem to forget that.

I think people are underestimating how much the GA loves Charles and Erik, who are featured heavily in this trailer. Got me excited, for one.

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Every 'outside world' person I've spoken to in the past few days has absolutely loved the trailer. Two of the biggest fanboys I work with were talking today about how it "epic" it looked.

I think some of these general audience experts haven't spent a whole lot of time with an actual general audience.

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Its the first official look we've got of the movie. How about we temper the expectations a little bit? We're still 6 months away from the movie and some are already writing it off based off of 2:20 of spliced footage.

This is the first trailer and for me its a pretty good start. They gave us so much more than you'd expect out of a "teaser" and I appreciate that.

Every 'outside world' person I've spoken to in the past few days has absolutely loved the trailer. Two of the biggest fanboys I work with were talking today about how it "epic" it looked.

I think some of these general audience experts haven't spent a whole lot of time with an actual general audience.

I think it is a good trailer and people will see this movie in droves. But, I will say that I think it is less "crowd pleasing" than several comic book film teasers are. On this, I would agree with people. But, that said...this movie will be big.

wasn't too impressed with the trailer, the pictures they put out today of Magneto in the 70's and then Beast in the woods both got me more excited about the movie than the trailer did.

But for how it's just an internet trailer, I don't think it's hurting the movie, i think by the time it really gets close to coming out, there's gonna be a lot of great stuff to show from it and people aren't going to remember this one much if they did indeed dislike it.

Were these outside people already fans of X-Men though, or have seen the previous movies?

Because if this movie wants to be truly huge, it will need to appeal to people who have never had a previous interest in X-Men.

Varied. Some were fans, others with a passing interest but not much knowledge about it.

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